YouTube Hypocrisy Shines Through After New Policies Ban Many Types Of Firearm-Related Content

By Brandon Curtis

YouTube isn’t a stranger to banning firearm-related content, and now they’ve broadened their reach to include a number of different things from videos showing how to install bump stocks to teaching how to reload ammunition.

Here we go:

Under the new restrictions, accessories that cannot be featured in videos that intend “to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales” or “links to sites that sell these items” include those that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire or convert a firearm to automatic fire (including bump stocks, gatling triggers, drop-in auto sears, and conversion kits), and high-capacity magazines. Videos can also no longer provide instructions on converting firearms to automatic or simulated automatic firing, manufacturing firearms, ammunition, silencers, and the aforementioned accessories. Lastly, videos cannot show users how to install these accessories.

YouTube doesn’t want videos on it’s platform that “have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death,”…..

“YouTube doesn’t allow content that encourages or promotes violence or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death …” said a letter from Youtube to Spike’s Tactical that the gun manufacturer posted on Facebook. “The only depictions of such activities that …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation